Sentence examples for a knowing audience from inspiring English sources

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We get a knowing audience, because many of them know Black Watch members.

By David Denby Experimental directors like Godard served a knowing audience.

But both directors served a knowing audience, for whom experimentation was almost a norm, or at least something expected.

In Paris he found a knowing audience for works like "Le Violon d'Ingres" from 1924 (the back of a woman's torso transformed into a musical instrument).

According to the New Yorker's film critic, David Denby, it is a kind of failed humour, muttered to a knowing audience, whose spread is systematically lowering the cultural tone.

Memorably portrayed by Ray Baker in the original as an ultimate used car salesman -- his desperately dogged up-sell of "the Ego Trip" option on the memory package always gets a knowing audience laugh when Schwarzenegger shakes his head and says "I am not interested in that" -- the character gets a sleazily off-kilter rendition in Cho's hands.

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There were sequinned dress-length football jerseys decorated with the number "61" (Ford's birth year) and the word "molly" with a slash through it, a reference, knowing audience members whispered to their clueless seatmates, to Jay Z's anti-drug lyric "I don't pop molly, I rock Tom Ford".

"Snakes on a Plane" may mark a new participatory style in marketing, but it still gulls an allegedly knowing audience with the pseudo-morality of yesteryear.

David Denby of The New Yorker claimed that the film "... may mark a new participatory style in marketing, but it still gulls an allegedly knowing audience with the pseudo-morality of yesteryear".

Her joke gives the knowing audience member a wistful twinge; the playwright is Steven Banks, the head writer of "SpongeBob SquarePants" and an underground hero beloved for his work as the outré Billy the Mime.

Opie's exhibition is contemporary British art at its worst, over-friendly with its knowing audience and flattering to nationalist cultural delusions.

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